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...never heard of-Governor Jimmy Carter of Georgia-won the Democratic nomination, and then the presidency. Ronald Reagan nearly defeated the incumbent President Gerald Ford for the Republican nomination. Carter's pollster, a 26-year-old named Patrick H. Caddell, gave him precise poll-driven instructions about how to conduct himself as President. To be successful, Caddell wrote, Carter would have to run a permanent campaign...
...having split from his wife and son, is now living in a state of isolation and emotional shutdown in a fancy house in Los Angeles. One day Richard suffers an intense, mysterious pain and is rushed to a hospital. The doctors find nothing, but he's sufficiently shaken to conduct a review of his life and how he's living it: "He couldn't cover everything up anymore, he needed to feel everything...
Unlike Sharon, who would conduct freewheeling gabfests with his aides without ever settling on a course of action, Olmert insists on reaching decisions at the end of each meeting. His stamina is honed by daily six-mile runs; someone who has advised both men says that "by 5 a.m. Olmert knows everything, because he has read all the papers on the Internet. I don't think Sharon knew how to turn on a computer." But Olmert shares Sharon's preoccupation with the survival of the Jewish state and an abiding skepticism in the Palestinians' willingness to accept that. "He mistrusts...
...became career members of the military during those rough times--the song conveyed a very different message. To us, its lyrics evoked a feeling that we must never again stand by quietly while those ignorant of and casual about war lead us into another one and then mismanage the conduct of it. Never again, we thought, would our military's senior leaders remain silent as American troops were marched off to an ill-considered engagement. It's 35 years later, and the judgment is in: the Who had it wrong. We have been fooled again...
...right of first refusal. The decision means Harvard will have to reclaim holdings in a company it thought it had gotten rid of four years ago—when it sold the shares to Charlesbank Equity Fund. Harvard spokesman John D. Longbrake defended the University’s conduct in the matter. “This case in part involves the interpretation of a technical term in a contract,” Longbrake wrote in an e-mail. The technicality centered on whether Charlesbank, which has financial ties to Harvard, is by definition a Harvard affiliate. In 1995, Harvard Private...